Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Bill Bowerman

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Glen Flanagan

That would make it easier to scout, that's for sure.

Celso Amorim

That will make it easier for Brazilian firms to participate in infrastructure projects.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feeling something was about to go wrong. It wasn't a one-run game, so that made it easier for me to take.

Jay Marston

Val is doing very well. She got some experience last year as a junior. Now she's our go-to pitcher. She's making it easier on everyone.

Peter Roskam

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Pierce Brosnan

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Mark Giuffre

We've made progress through the week and we have generous offers on the table.

Oriana Fallaci

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Pat Gillick

We have a very generous budget, ... We have sufficient money to do the things we need to do. We have to be imaginative and allocate the money properly.

Samuel Beckett

For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.

Jeff Fettig

have always been generous in reaching out to help others during times of need.

Dick Cheney

He's a good man, a man of generous instincts and high standards, ... Yesterday he said goodbye to his home state of Texas. Let us now welcome him to Washington as the next president of the United States.

Joyce Smith

The people here are so wonderful, generous and warm-hearted, ... They've given so much. I can never thank them enough.

David Slutsky

He was just the greatest, wisest, strongest, most generous man.

Alan Paton

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

John Gibbons

We've been swinging. We like the way our offence is built.

Ron Gardenhire

I don't know if it was our offence or the flu.

John Roberts

End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue.

Augusten Burroughs

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

Anthony Atala

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Henri Frederic Amiel

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

George Wilson

[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

George F. Kennan

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

Michael Behe

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Frank Bruni

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Pauline Kael

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?